(Rebecca Chen and Rick Wu) In the first of this two-part series, you’ll learn how to implement a GPS adapter on an IBM RFID edge controller using the WebSphere Studio Device Developer RFID Device Development Kit, and how to verify it on the IBM RFID middleware toolkit using a GPS simulator.

(Rob Henley) This article describes the enhanced Web services support in WebSphere Message Broker V6. A brief introduction to SOAP and WSDL is followed by an outline of the basic Web service scenarios and corresponding message flows. The article then discusses the significance of a message model, it

(Chris Eaton) As I mentioned in a previous posting, I sat in on Serge Rielau’s session at IDUG in Vienna entitled SQL On Fire and with his permission I’m going to share some of the wealth of information he shared with us. The examples he gave were a great learning tool for writing more powerful stat

(Whei-Jen Chen, Art Sammartino, Dobromir Goutev, Felicity Hendricks, Ippei Komi, Ming-pang Wei and Rav Ahuja) IBM DB2 9 for Linux, UNIX and Windows marks a new stage in the evolution of data servers. IBM has continually led the data management industry with the release of innovative technology. DB2

(Ajaykumar Gupte) Consider the kind of application where data fragmentation is based on date expression, using a separate fragment for sales report for each day. Each day, the DBA needs to add a new dbspace for the date expression. If the application requires a large number of ranges in different fr

(Omer Brandis) Today I’d like to share some tips on CLIENT COPY. Most of you probably know this, but I guess some people may find this post interesting. ( so here goes nothing …)

(Larissa Schoeffing and Rene Auberger) This article is for portal specialists, architects, and consultants who need to understand how to use the personalization support in WebSphere Portal V6. You walk through detailed examples of rule driven personalization involving Web Content Management and Port

(Michael Curry) As organizations work on integrating and managing information across the enterprise, they’re finding that it’s no easy task. For the most part, they’re forced to build from scratch or knit together solutions that provide access, cleansing, integration, and management. But for mission

(Willie Favero) What is even more important, it’s a sign that maybe some of us “dinosaurs” can carve out an existence in the business for a few more years by playing with DB2, z/OS, and the myriad of products supported by IBM’s System z servers.

(Debra R. Eaton) The IBM DB2 Developer Workbench (DWB) provides out-of-the-box integrated development for DB2 9 pureXML. DWB is based on the Eclipse open source Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Learn how the DWB resources, perspectives, views, editors, and wizards assist you to work with th